Bazil Marian

Bazil Marian (7 November 1922 – 19 January 2008) was a Romanian professional footballer and coach. As a player, Marian played as a midfielder or forward and was named The Bomber due to the large number of goals he scored and was also a popular player among supporters due to some funny episodes, for example in 1952 he drank two glasses of țuică on the pitch.[1] After the retirement Marian started his coaching career and over the years he coached important teams like: Rapid București, Jiul Petroșani, Dinamo București, Argeș Pitești or JS Kabylie. He was also the coach of Romania and Romania U-21. Marian retired from football in 1989.[2]

Bazil Marian

Personal information
Date of birth	(1922-11-07)7 November 1922
Place of birth	Uioara de Sus, Romania
Date of death	19 January 2008(2008-01-19) (aged 85)
Place of death	Bucharest, Romania
Position(s)	Midfielder / Forward
Youth career
1934–1938	Solvay Uioara
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1938–1940	Victoria Cluj	14	(2)
1940–1941	Mica Brad	22	(5)
1941–1946	Carmen București	62	(34)
1947–1954	Locomotiva București	100+	(54)
Total		198+	(95)
National team‡
1942–1949	Romania	18	(2)
Teams managed
1954–1960	Rapid București (assistant)
1961–1962	Jiul Petroșani
1962–1963	Viitorul București
1963–1967	Romania U-21
1967–1969	Dinamo București
1969	Farul Constanța
1970	Argeș Pitești
1971–1972	Rapid București
1973–1974	Boufarik
1974–1975	JS Kabylie
1977–1978	Rapid București
1979–1989	Romania U-21
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 March 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 1 March 2018